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Climate change will directly threaten a wide range of human rights, both civil and political, as well as economic, social and cultural rights. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), considered in tandem with the Paris Agreement, represent an unprecedented attempt by the international community to recognise the links between climate change and development. They set ambitious targets for mitigating climate change in a manner that will facilitate development. This paper investigates whether the extraterritorial obligations of these new agreements are sufficiently institutionalised. Are states following the procedural norms outlined in the SDGs and the Paris Agreement in a way that would result in effective climate action? It finds that, while the SDGs and the Paris Agreement provide a roadmap to effective action on climate and development, they fail to clearly distribute responsibilities or drive states toward fulfilling their extraterritorial obligations. States have recognised their collective moral responsibility to protect people from the threat of climate change, but they have not created the mechanisms that would hold themselves accountable to their commitments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Previous studies have demonstrated how Europeans perceive service robots, but there is a lack of empirical evidence for the same in Asians, particularly from cross-national studies with a substantial sample size. In this study, we adopt a transdiagnostic approach and analyse the disorder caused by hotel service robots (HSR) in the hotel industry using a sample of 1311 respondents from an Asian context. This approach has traditionally been used in psychiatry, and we provide a significant discovery from a Southeast Asian perspective by employing the same methodology.Through the adoption of the methodology used in this study, we recognise that prior research on hotel services has produced uncertain findings, likely due to the presence of multiple service situations. Furthermore, this study is notable because it introduces a methodology that has traditionally been utilized in psychiatry to the field of human-robot management for the first time. Two situational experiments have shown that customers have a preference for highly human-like hotel service robots (HSR), and they believe that these robots perform better in situations where they perceive a high level of control. The effects are only significant in social situations and are reversed when there is a lower perceived level of control. The study's high level of novelty arises from the fact that the effect is absent in luxury hotels within the geographic boundaries of the investigation. These results provide a new outlook on how humans and robots perceive the acceptance of HSR in the hotel industry. Professionals, academics, and hoteliers who are evaluating the decision to implement robots that could either enhance or diminish their service standards may find this study to be valuable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]